RAMPUR: Senior Samajwadi Party leader Muhammad Azam Khan's close aide Asim Raja will be the party's candidate for the byelections to the Rampur Lok Sabha seat. Khan announced his name at his party office Darr-ul-Awam, which means the house of common people.
The senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader had vacated the seat after his election to the state Assembly this year, necessitating the bypolls. The announcement came days after party president Akhilesh Yadav met Khan at a Delhi hospitals, where according to sources they discussed the bypolls to the Rampur seat.